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Subject: Your first cassette?
We all know that Cds started getting popular after 1986, and before that there were only cassettes. And even though cassettes were still very popular through the 90s, these days i have been to almost every music store known to man kind and they don't even make cassettes any more. Just recently i went to purchase a CD at a circuit city, and they asked me if i wanted to buy it as a mini disc instead...they showed me and it was the size of a quarter!
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My first cassettes (got them for Christmas) were Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Def Leppard's "Pyromania." My first record album was The Purple Rain Soundtrack.
I didn't get my 1st CD until 1991...it was Book of Love's self-titled album.
I had one minidisc at one time...came with a Rolling Stone issue. It was for some sweepstakes (I didn't win anything) and it was when minidiscs first came out. Some thought they would replace cassettes as the new recording media. Looks like CDs have done that.
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We all know that Cds started getting popular after 1986, and before that there were only cassettes. And even though cassettes were still very popular through the 90s, these days i have been to almost every music store known to man kind and they don't even make cassettes any more. Just recently i went to purchase a CD at a circuit city, and they asked me if i wanted to buy it as a mini disc instead...they showed me and it was the size of a quarter!
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There were Albums, some Artist still release albums. Casettes were a pain, I'm glad there gone. Minidiscs are coll because they are harder to skip, but with MP3's advantages, they may go the way of the cassette two.
My first casette was "Talking back to the night" by Steve Winwood, Was not a big success when it was released, but it had "Valerie" on it, which later became a huge hit.
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I can't remember my first cassette :-[ I used to buy a lot of lps in the 80's and record stuff from the radio onto a cassette. It was probably Chicago.
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The Outfield’s Play Deep was my first cassette, and I wore that tape numb.
Later I got it on CD, but it wasn't quite as good as I remember. Funny how that goes.
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Ah, yes, my first cassette was Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain. I still have it!!!!
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Sorry guys, i forgot to add mine! My first cassette was actually a single. The song was " Die without you " by PM Dawn. 8)
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Gosh I'm not sure!
I think I can narrow it down to three "of my first", though... ::) The first ones I recollect having/getting were
The Goonies Soundtrack, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, and Julian Lennon's Valotte.
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-Thomas
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The first cassette that I remember purchasing with my own money was Michael Jackson's "Thriller" as well!!! :)
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It was either a KISS album or the "Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" soundtrack.
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Madonna's "Like A Virgin".
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My first music cassette was one of Art Garfunkel on SNL that I recorded by holding the microphone up to the TV. ::)
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For my 13th birthday, I got a stereo along with my first cassette: Private Dancer by Tina Turner (my mom picked it out and although I wasn't too excited about it at the time, it became one of my faves).
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The Wallflowers "Bringing Down The Horse" for Christmas, back in '97.
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The Wallflowers "Bringing Down The Horse" Â for Christmas, back in '97.
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Yea, i used to have " Bringing down the horse" in CD! Very 97-ish!
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Not being a Creedence Clearwater Revival fan, My first tape was of them given to me on my birthday .... years ago.
It was their Cosmos Factory tape. I still have it though.
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Mine was an excellent collection of the "best hits of 1987", I was very young back then but instantly fell in love with Heaven Is a Place On Earth by Belinda Carlisle and Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship, those two songs are still among my favorites up to this day :)
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can't remember for sure but it was either Disco Duck or Olivia Newton John
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hahaha! The first cassette tape I ever bought was in 1982...it was Pac-Man Fever by Buckner and Garcia... ::) ;D I was about 7-8 years old when I bought it, and still have it to this day.
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I bought my first cassette in 1983; it was Sammy Hagar's "Standing Hampton," and I still have it.
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My first cassette would have been Abba.I never really liked tapes I used to buy vinyl.
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I am not sure if it was the soundtrack to Flashdance or Purple Rain...
My "boyfriend" (you know, the kind of boyfriend who you only talk to over the phone during the summer because you were too young to date?) bought me the Purple Rain cassette for my 14th birthday the summer between 7th and 8th grade! Imagine my folks surprise when they heard the song "Darling Nikki" through my bedroom door!
Those were the days...
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My first casette in the 80's was Kylie Minogues first album - that has been played so many times that the quality is absolutly terrible now! :)
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my auntie (who was then 14) gave me a tape when I was three which I still have... it was various songs from the year I was born (1985).
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The Cars! 8)
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mine was a California Raisins album. It was basically an unnamed cover-band playing pop songs, and it had the CA Raisins on the front of the tape case.
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Europe - The Final Countdown and Out of This World
- Tempest -
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My first commercially-produced music cassette tape was the Quiet Riot album "Condition Critical" which I got through the Columbia House Music Club. I remember feeling so "with the times" because I had been using LP records and 45 records before that. That was probably around 1984 when I was 11 or 12.
I don't remember if I had started using cassettes to record music from the radio or albums before that. I had been using blank cassettes from a young age to record audio skits that we did and for saving and loading programs on our TRS-80 computers (I inherited the Model I after Dad bought a Model III). Floppy drives were available, but Dad was satisfied with the cassette.
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My first cassette was Def Leppard's Hysteria. My best friend and I played it so much that it broke in my portable pink "boom box with dual cassette recorder!!!"
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;D I was looking at this post on Friday and couldn't remember my first cassestte. Then it hit me over the weekend. It was Foghat! Fool for the city. Before they had boom boxes I would carry my tape recorder around and listen to this tape over and over again. AHHH the memories. I wanna go back!
TimRATT-n-ROLL
Subject: Re: Your first cassette?
I'm not sure of my first cassette because I got it SO LONG AGO! I still have my stereo that I got for my 11th birthday - it's got a cassette player, a turntable, and an 8-track player! My first cassette would have been something circa 1980...
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8)
first cassette bought was breakdance in september of 1984 when i was 14.i was a breaker back then.rap and breakin was my thing at 13 and 14.at 15&16 my thing was playing the commodore 64 and the music that it provided.at 17 i started watching mtv and became enthralled with pink floyd.so that was my first non rap tape.
was it the wall you ask?
no.it was a momentary lapse of reason.i got it cause i loved that video so much.learning to fly.
what was my next tape you may be asking?it was iron maiden's seventh son of a seventh son.i bought it 6 months after i got the floyd tape.
then,right after that,i was forever hooked on metal.priest and slayer came right after the maiden tape.
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My first cassette was when i got two of them at the same time. one was hysteria-Def Leppard and the other one was 5150 by Van Halen. I still listen to them when im driving to school every day
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'til Tuesday--Voices Carry 8)
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My first cassette was some compliation album that had Joe Jackson, Olivia Newton-John, Elton John, and Alan Parsons Project on it. It must have been either '82 or '83. Joe Jackson's song Steppin Out was my favorite at the time! I have no idea what happened to it. I still have the Tears For Fears' cassette Songs From The Big Chair that I bought when it was released.
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I stuck with vinyl for so long...I think it was either Def Leppard, Foreigner, 38 Special or the Go Gos, as those are the first I remember.
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First cassette I listened to----Foreigner "4"
First cassette i bought-----Styx "Kilroy Was Here"
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Whoo...let's see 'ere...among my very first cassettes had to be a couple of Elvis tapes and maybe a George Harrison. My pops let me borrow them to play on my brand new cassette deck I received for my 7th birthday.
The first pre-recorded cassette I purchased was probably either a KISS, Van Halen or "Muppet Show" 8-track.
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The first cassette I owned is kind of hard to remember. There were so many of them. I remember the first cassette I bought though... Husker Du's Flip Your Wig, which, btw, has never been released on CD! I wish I had that tape!
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The 1st cassette I ever got was a Christmas present. And it was The Steve Miller Band: Greatest Hits. :D I was in 3rd or 4th grade. I don't even remember the 1st cassette I ever bought myself. Maybe George Michael: Faith or NKOTB: Hanging Tough. The 1st record I ever bought was a single for the song Edelweiss when that song came out. I don't even know why I bought it b/c we had a record player that never worked so needless to say I never got to hear it. Maybe it was cheaper than a cassette single...who knows?! ???
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Back in '81 my dad let order some tapes from Columbia House. I can't remember them all but I know there was:
Led Zeppelin - 4
Bad Company - Desolation Angels
AC/DC - Back In Black
Rush - Permanent Waves
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
there were 12 all together - to this day I still have the Black Sabbath and the Rush ones - and still sound ok.
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what decade are the 8 tracks from? when I was younger I listened to records and 8 tracks. I had this cool stereo in my bedroom as a child....it was Tall and had the am/fm stereo and 8 track player at the top, then lower down it had a record player and the bottom had lots of colored lights to pulsed with sound...music or any other sound....try walking through the room in the dark and stepping on a cat....terrifying cat noise and colorful flashing lights! haha I wish I still had that..i dont know what my parents did with it. I would stand in front of that thing and sing The Monkees and The Beach Boys and America (all my dads old records) :)
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My first cassette was when i got two of them at the same time. one was hysteria-Def Leppard and the other one was 5150 by Van Halen. I still listen to them when im driving to school every day
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I know a lot of 80s music, just half the time I dont know its 80s and if I do then I dont know who it is...the song Jump by Van Halen came on the radio the other day and I could sing every word and my boyfriend said "ah...van halen" and I was like "are you serious?" anyways...then we started laughing because of our age difference...he said that song came out in '84 and I said "hrmm, I was only 1 or 2 years old" and he said "holy &$&% I was at the van halen concert that year, and you were in diapers"
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Mine was Songs From The Big Chair from Tears For Fears I still have it and still works as good as it did 20 years ago ;)
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We all know that Cds started getting popular after 1986, and before that there were only cassettes. And even though cassettes were still very popular through the 90s, these days i have been to almost every music store known to man kind and they don't even make cassettes any more. Just recently i went to purchase a CD at a circuit city, and they asked me if i wanted to buy it as a mini disc instead...they showed me and it was the size of a quarter!
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My first cassette was Paula Abdul Forever your girl, and I still have it too! I even still listen to it sometimes ;D.
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My first cassette was Huey Lewis and the News "Sports." I lost it over the years, but went and bought the cassette again just to have it =) I've seen cassettes sold around here, but it's usually a really small section of the store. Sometimes I go to a independant store near me that sells new and used cd's etc. Can find tons of cassettes there for around 99 cents.
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My first cassette was Huey Lewis and the News "Sports." End Quote
I have the Huey Lewis "Fore" cassette. The first CD I bought was "Sports" though, I love that album.
I still have loads of cassettes. I guess the main thing was when I was younger I always drove cars that only had tape players.
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Madonna´s "Like a Prayer" i think..
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My first cassette was some compliation album that had Joe Jackson, Olivia Newton-John, Elton John, and Alan Parsons Project on it. It must have been either '82 or '83. Joe Jackson's song Steppin Out was my favorite at the time! I have no idea what happened to it. End Quote
You're thinking of the V/A compilation titled Starlite, which came out in early '83 on the infamous K-tel label - I have both the vinyl LP and cassette versions myself. :-) You're right, it included "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson, "Blue Eyes" by Elton John, and "Eye in the Sky" by the Alan Parsons Project (nothing by ONJ, though). And as a refresher, it also featured such "lost" 1982 pop classics as Sylvia's "Nobody", "Goin' Down" by Greg Guidry, Karla Bonoff's "Personally", and "A Penny for Your Thoughts" by Tavares... :-)
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I remember the first cassette I bought though... Husker Du's Flip Your Wig, which, btw, has never been released on CD! I wish I had that tape!
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Heh heh, caught you sleeping again, TB. :-) Actually, Flip Your Wig has been available on CD here in the U.S. practically since the album first came out in 1985! In fact, it's still in print today on both CD and cassette - so run out to your local record store this afternoon and buy one of each!!! :P
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The 1st record I ever bought was a single for the song Edelweiss when that song came out. I don't even know why I bought it b/c we had a record player that never worked so needless to say I never got to hear it. Maybe it was cheaper than a cassette single...who knows?! ???
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"Bring Me Edelweiss" by Edelweiss was released as a single here in the U.S. in the Spring of '89. You're right, it was issued on both vinyl 45 and cassette single; they were the same price. After a roughly five-year search, I finally found a used copy of the cassette single about 3-4 months ago, and luckily, it's still in near-perfect condition, including the cardboard picture sleeve. Pretty cool song...
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what decade are the 8 tracks from? End Quote
Here in the U.S., 8-tracks lasted from 1965-83; they were more popular in America than anywhere else in the world, peaking in the mid and late '70s. After they disappeared from record stores in '83, you could still order many current titles through the record clubs (i.e., Columbia House and RCA Music Service) or TV offers (mostly compilations) up until 1988, when they finally vanished completely...
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I've seen cassettes sold around here, but it's usually a really small section of the store. End Quote
Sad, but true, although practically all chain stores have a small amount of cassettes, and some actually still have a fairly large selection (usually the dreaded overpriced mall stores). Believe it or not, most new releases on the major labels still come out on cassette (albeit in much smaller quantities). In fact, cassettes still managed to account for 5% of all new U.S. album sales in 2002...
Quoting: Sometimes I go to a independant store near me that sells new and used cd's etc. Can find tons of cassettes there for around 99 cents.
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Definitely sounds like my kinda place! :-)
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Hmm I can't remember for sure which one came first...I think it was probably Rick Springfield/Working Class Dog. Others that I got around the same time were Queen/The Game, John Cougar/American Fool, and J. Geils Band/Freeze Frame. First vinyl woulda been either Duran Duran/Seven & the Ragged Tiger or Prince/Purple Rain. Eeee gads....it's hard to believe that my obsession with music grew from listening to cassettes on an old Realistic cassette player with ONE speaker!
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AC/DC Back In Black! Played it on one of those black cassette recorder/players that were the size of a toaster and had a horrible hiss on it.
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We all know that Cds started getting popular after 1986, and before that there were only cassettes. And even though cassettes were still very popular through the 90s, these days i have been to almost every music store known to man kind and they don't even make cassettes any more. Just recently i went to purchase a CD at a circuit city, and they asked me if i wanted to buy it as a mini disc instead...they showed me and it was the size of a quarter!
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I still listen to cassettes sometimes, if I do not own the album on CD. For example, the Wallflower's "Bringing Down the Horse" is a great album, but I don't own it on CD, but I have it on tape (I think one of the first ones I've gotten). So I still listen to it, along with a few Weird Al and Bruce Springsteen tapes I have.
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Purchased? = Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
"Appropriated"? = Def Leppard - Pyromania
Both of which i still have for i will never get rid of my tapes.
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You're thinking of the V/A compilation titled Starlite, which came out in early '83 on the infamous K-tel label - I have both the vinyl LP and cassette versions myself. :-) You're right, it included "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson, "Blue Eyes" by Elton John, and "Eye in the Sky" by the Alan Parsons Project (nothing by ONJ, though). And as a refresher, it also featured such "lost" 1982 pop classics as Sylvia's "Nobody", "Goin' Down" by Greg Guidry, Karla Bonoff's "Personally", and "A Penny for Your Thoughts" by Tavares... :-)
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Thanks! I never could remember what that title of that compilation was, but now I know.
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Donnie Iris, King Cool
It was also the last 8-track I ever bought.
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I'm Pretty sure the first cassette tape I ever bought was "Tarkus" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
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STAR WARS SOUNDTRACK or GREASE SOUNDTRACK.. PS: Dont do the math.. LOL. Man that was a long time ago.
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Donnie Iris, King Cool
It was also the last 8-track I ever bought.
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Excellent album! :-) Have it on cassette myself, but by any chance do you still have that 8-track? If so, I'd be interested... :-)
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The first cassette I ever bought was Powerage by AC/DC.
The last cassette I bought was Balance by Van Halen.
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"Suddenly" by Billy Ocean. I still have it, too. I haven't listened to it in YEARS. It probably sounds awful. I played that tape to death when I got it.
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Excellent album! :-) Have it on cassette myself, but by any chance do you still have that 8-track? If so, I'd be interested... :-)
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Alas, no. It went bye-bye with Pretenders II and Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" 8-tracks.
But Donnie really rocked in those days. "That's The Way Love Ought To Be" was my fave from that album. That guy could really scream.
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I think my first one was the Barenaked Ladies first album in 1991, purchased by my parents when I was seven. I guess my first real purchase of cassettes was at a garage sale I happened to come across a couple years ago. I started looking at the selections and tonnes of great eighties music, practically all of it was eighties...at a quarter each! The guy selling had a couple of cases that could hold 60 tapes each and realized I was piling up on tapes so he told me he would give me a case for $5 if I could fill the whole thing...we had a deal! Lots of good tapes, like Husker Du, Violent Femmes, Go-Go's, INXS, radio mix tapes for Toronto late-80's alternative stations, and a lot of new wave stuff like Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Smiths and Morrissey, The The, Spoons, and Psychedelic Furs
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The first tape I ever possessed was an audio recording of the first Apollo moon landing in 1969. It consists of about 1.5 hours of astronaut chatter. Somewhere I have a couple of cassettes of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its first landing.
First commercial tape cassette I ever purchased was Loverboy. Turn Me Loose, Kid Is Hot Tonight.... ahhh, memories. :D
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Answer with some added love:
First 8-Track - Styx "Grand Illusion"
First Cassette - Footloose Soundtrack
First CD - Sting "Dream of the Blue Turtles"
For some reason, I'll always remember that Styx CD. My first album was some odd-ball K-Tel Album "Boogie Nights".
Jimbo